http://disqus.com/by/silentjay/enFri, 18 Jul 2008 10:08:33 -0000http://www.listropolis.com/2008/06/led-zeppelin-innovators-or-plagiarists-audio-of-8-songs-proving-they-might-be-the-best-cover-band-of-all-time/#comment-932191<p>awesomely stated sheplaysguitarandcriesandsings! I'm with you 100%. there are just way too many bozo's nowadays who just don't get it - you' said it well ! rock on bro!</p>silentjayFri, 18 Jul 2008 10:08:33 -0000http://www.listropolis.com/2008/06/led-zeppelin-innovators-or-plagiarists-audio-of-8-songs-proving-they-might-be-the-best-cover-band-of-all-time/#comment-884363<p> i guess a piece of lettuce , a tomato , a pickle and a bun are plagiarist for being put on a piece of beef. think about it for a minute.</p>silentjayMon, 14 Jul 2008 00:15:37 -0000http://www.listropolis.com/2008/06/led-zeppelin-innovators-or-plagiarists-audio-of-8-songs-proving-they-might-be-the-best-cover-band-of-all-time/#comment-832476<p>ohya and one more thing - Led Zeppelin(debut) was recorded in about 36 hours - so it was basically one long jam session. And - "Good Times Bad Times" &amp; "Communication Breakdown" are the best work on the album and were 100% original - Page "virtually invents the guitar riff as a key songwriting component" .</p>silentjayMon, 07 Jul 2008 22:55:30 -0000http://www.listropolis.com/2008/06/led-zeppelin-innovators-or-plagiarists-audio-of-8-songs-proving-they-might-be-the-best-cover-band-of-all-time/#comment-831185<p>Led Zeppelin were innovators. If you really want to get technical about lyrics well i'm not sure there's easy answers for that - if you're going to stand behind that logic I think you may as well just say that Rock N' Roll itself is plagiarism. And if it is - then I think maybe that's what make's it what it is. Someone once said -" A good poet borrows- A great poet steals"</p>silentjayMon, 07 Jul 2008 19:04:59 -0000http://www.listropolis.com/2008/06/led-zeppelin-innovators-or-plagiarists-audio-of-8-songs-proving-they-might-be-the-best-cover-band-of-all-time/#comment-829997<p>Interesting topic , and I get what you're trying to say here shaun but I think you're missing something here and that is that led Zeppelin did'nt by any stretch of the imagination start the whole "white boys doing the blues" thing - it started in the 50's with Elvis and just about any rock n' roll band you can name 10 years before Zep including Beatles &amp; Stones etc. Page's "new blues sound" or "heavy" blues was directly influenced by Jeff Beck Group "Truth" album. it was common in those days to leave out direct credits. Page himself played literally hundreds of studio sessions he was never credited for.<br>i think plagiarism is a pretty harsh word to use in this case. I think it had alot more to with homage &amp; tribute and also reaching a young audience. </p>silentjayMon, 07 Jul 2008 16:26:15 -0000